Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2010:183 First vendor Publication 2010-09-15
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2010-09-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in socat:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the nestlex function in nestlex.c in Socat 1.5.0.0 through 1.7.1.2 and 2.0.0-b1 through 2.0.0-b3, when bidirectional data relay is enabled, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via long command-line arguments (CVE-2010-2799).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:183

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12303
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12303
Title: DSA-2090-1 socat -- incorrect user-input validation
Description: A stack overflow vulnerability was found in socat that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the socat process. This vulnerability can only be exploited when an attacker is able to inject more than 512 bytes of data into socat's argument. A vulnerable scenario would be a CGI script that reads data from clients and uses this data as argument for a socat invocation. For the stable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.0.1-1+lenny1. For the unstable distribution, this problem has been fixed in version 1.7.1.3-1. We recommend that you upgrade your socat package.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2090-1
CVE-2010-2799
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
 Product(s): socat
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 10

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-03-08 Name : Fedora Update for socat FEDORA-2011-0098
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2011_0098_socat_fc14.nasl
2010-09-22 Name : Mandriva Update for socat MDVSA-2010:183 (socat)
File : nvt/gb_mandriva_MDVSA_2010_183.nasl
2010-09-07 Name : Fedora Update for socat FEDORA-2010-13403
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_13403_socat_fc12.nasl
2010-09-07 Name : Fedora Update for socat FEDORA-2010-13412
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2010_13412_socat_fc13.nasl
2010-08-21 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2090-1 (socat)
File : nvt/deb_2090_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
66813 socat nestlex.c nestlex() Function Local Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-10-10 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : f5_bigip_SOL14919.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-01-25 Name : The remote SuSE 11 host is missing a security update.
File : suse_11_socat-120611.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-07-03 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_socat-8186.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-03-07 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2011-0098.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-09-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-13403.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-09-01 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2010-13412.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2010-08-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2090.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO